Cobol 'COPY' equivalent in REXX

#1 05-26-2008, 11:06 AM

Hello,
Probably elementary but when I write Cobol programs I frequently use
'COPY ABC' stmts etc for common bits of code, in particular that ABC
might contain several procedural code paragraphs.

Can I do the same in REXX?

e.g. the following REXX is saved as COMMON1.REX and contains:

/*REXX*/
load1:
do things
return

print3:
do other things
return

How might any REXX I subsequently write incorporate this COMMON1.REX
file. Is there a 'standard' method of doing this? Would it matter that
the COMMON1 suffix was .REX?

Thanks.
Graham

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#2 05-30-2008, 05:24 PM

In <qsjl34dib3k5m6fksi83rbmohtum8g33i1@4ax.com>, on 05/26/2008
at 11:06 AM, Graham Hobbs <ghobbs@cdpwise.net> said:

>Probably elementary

Alas, no. REXX lets you use external functions and procedures, but it
doesn't allow you to share name space with them or to imbed snippets of
code. The closest that you can come to that is to use enviroment objects
and packages in Open Object REXX.

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#3 05-30-2008, 07:48 PM

Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
> Alas, no. REXX lets you use external functions and procedures, but it
> doesn't allow you to share name space with them or to imbed snippets of
> code. The closest that you can come to that is to use enviroment objects
> and packages in Open Object REXX.

Do you not consider .local variables to be a shared name space? Or were
you including those with environment objects?

I'm not entirely sure what .local variables/objects are, nor precisely
what I can and cannot do with them, but for my purposes they are
variables shared across all code running under the same instance of rexx.

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#4 05-31-2008, 07:57 PM

In <4841df06$1@news.greennet.net>, on 05/31/2008
at 12:48 AM, Steve Swift <Steve.J.Swift@gmail.com> said:

>Do you not consider .local variables to be a shared name space? Or were
>you including those with environment objects?

I was including them with environment objects.

I don't know whether the OP uses OREXX or OOREXX. If he uses some flavor
of classical REXX then those options aren't available to him.

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